George Ebert, USA won the 1st
prize of the contest for
the best title of this photo:

Cozy, - and worth a thousand other words!

Here
you see:
1. Prof. Juan Mezzich (President of the World Psychiatric Association)
2. David Oaks and
3. Judy Chamberlin fromSupport Coalition International
4. Prof. Thomas Kallert (Torture-Congress Organizer)
5. and last but not least Peter Lehmann (from the European Network of Users and Survivors of
Psychiatry)

Here are the
other top 9 titles of this contest:

The two 2nd prizes go to Jan Groth, Germany:
In Dresden experts for coercive treatment searched for ways toward user-controlled
and humane torture in psychiatry. ANDJens Petersen, Switzerland:The besmirched
and the servile ones.
---------------------------------------------------------3rd prize
goes to:Thomas Szasz, USA:
Psychiatric training is the ritualized indoctrination of the young physician
into the theory and practice of psychiatric violence.
------------------------------------------------------------Here are the others out of the 10 best (random order):Rodney Yoder, USA:
Psychiatric thugs welcome power and coercion crazed c/s/x tokens into
their coven.

Mechthild von Magdeburg,
Germany:
Burying the hatchet
Psychiatrists from all over the world and top representatives of
international federations of users and victims of psychiatry strove for
constructive co-operation and mutual understanding at a congress of the
World Psychiatric Association on coercive treatment, in order to
produce even more humane psychiatric torture measures in the future.

Johann von Leyden, Germany:
Five proud of their cynicism

Karl Valentin, Germany:
Together with the head nurse the patient club has just planned an
excursion

Rene Talbot, Germany:
The compliance alliance

Hagai Aviel, Israel:
Putting a face on this practice
This is a photo of a smiling group which co-operated at the WPA Congress
on 6 - 8th June 2007 in Dresden, Germany. The official themes of this
congress were the conceptual, ethical and technical aspects of coercive
treatment: forced medication, forced feeding, involuntary admission, involuntary
hospitalization, isolation, mechanical restraint, physical restraint,
seclusion, sterilization and a combination of different modes of coercive
treatment...

While it is understandable why the two psychiatrists in the group
attend this kind of torture congress, it is puzzling why the other
three - who styled themselves as speakers for the world's "consumers
and survivors" of psychiatry - should collaborate with them, especially
since the organizer left no doubt about the continuation of torture in
psychiatry. In an interview for the mainstream press given before
the congress began, he proudly
announced that